ORTELIUS, Abraham.
[A pirated edition of the Ortelius Epitome map of Salzburg]Salisburgensis Iurisdictionis.Venice, c.1655. Coloured. 80 x 105mm.A miniature map of Salzburg. A second title appears outside the neatline. The map was published in 'Il theatro del mondo', an Italian pirate edition of the Ortelius 'Epitome' miniature atlas. First published in 1598, the publication was revived in 1655, forty years after the last edition of the Dutch original.KOEMAN: Ort 70.
[Ref: 14718]
£80.00
($106 • €92 rates)

ORTELIUS, Abraham.
[A pirated edition of the Ortelius Epitome map of Austria]Austriae Descriptio.Venice, c.1655. Coloured. 80 x 105mm.A miniature map of Austria. A second title appears outside the neatline. The map was published in 'Il theatro del mondo', an Italian pirate edition of the Ortelius 'Epitome' miniature atlas. First published in 1598, the publication was revived in 1655, forty years after the last edition of the Dutch original.KOEMAN: Ort 70.
[Ref: 14724]
£80.00
($106 • €92 rates)

SUTTINGER, Daniel.
[Panorama of Vienna under siege by the Ottomans]Wien in Oesterreich 1683.Vienna? c.1683. Two sheets conjoined, total 245 x 680mm.A scarce prospect of Vienna, drawn by Daniel Suttinger on the eve of the Siege of Vienna by the Ottomans in 1683, showing the glacis, the land in front of the defensive walls cleared of buildings. The siege began in July and the city held out until relief troops under the King of Poland, Jan III Sobieski, arrived and fought the Battle of Vienna on 11-12th September. Suttinger (1640-90?) was a military engineer from Saxony had lived in the city since 1670 advising on the defences and who participated at the defence: he also published plans of the Siege, important for its depiction of the Turkish trench tactics, and the Battle of Vienna.
[Ref: 13748]
£800.00
($1,062 • €923 rates)

THOMAS, Corbinianus.
[18th century map of Salzburg]Salzburg.Frankfurt, 1730. Original colour. 125 x 125mm.A map of Salzburg, engraved by Johann Christoph Berndt for the celestial atlas 'Mercurii Philosphici Firmamentum Firmianum', named for Thomas's patron, Leopold Anton von Firmian, Archbishop of Salzburg. Corbinianus Thomas (1694-1767), a Benedictine monk, was Professor of Mathematics and Theology at the University of Salzburg. His star atlas was first published in 1730 at Frankfurt, with a second edition at Augsburg the following year. He used an odd system for nomenclature: Bayer Greek letter for the star, Roman numeral for the magnitude and Arabic numeral for the star catalogue reference.KANAS: 7.7, 'beautiful illustrations'; WARNER, p.251.
[Ref: 14401]
£100.00
($133 • €115 rates)

RABATTA, Augusto & BAILOU, Jean Baptist de.
[An 18th century playing-card map of Austria]Circolo d'Austria.Florence: Aniello Lamberti, 1779. Original colour. Sheet size 115 x 73mm.A rare miniature map of Austria engraved by Lamberti for the 'Minchiate', the Florentine version of the Tarot, which had each card marked with an arcane symbol. The full set was published in Augusto Da Rabatta and Jean Baptiste De Baillou's pocket atlas 'Nuovo Atlante Generale'. Information on the map is minimal, but an extensive key gives the names of the various regions.
[Ref: 12961]
£425.00
($564 • €490 rates)

TALLIS, John.
[Mid 19th century map of Austria and the Habsburg Empire]Austria.London, c.1851. Original outline colour. Steel engraving, printed area 260 x 330mm.A map of the Habsburg Empire with decorative vignette views of Vienna with St. Stephen's Cathedral and a local scene. Drawn and engraved by John Rapkin, for the Illustrated Atlas, one of the last decorative atlases,
[Ref: 18061]
£130.00
($173 • €150 rates)